Country outlook

Healthcare system in China has tremendous potential. The rapid technological development along with improving living standard of China's growing middle and upper classes has resulted in the growing adoption of advanced and hi-tech solutions by the hospitals. In addition, government's focus also triggers the market growth to some extent. For instance, the domestic healthcare industry has started supporting healthcare AI startups in China, providing them with easier access to healthcare data to train their algorithms, assisted by the relatively flexible regulations. Technological advancements such as big data and artificial intelligence in machine learning are going to lead the medical imaging market in China, thereby bolstering the VNA & PACS market in the coming years.

PACS dominates the market as it has been traditionally adopted in the field of radiology, cardiology and other departments to replace film-based image retrieval, distribution, and display. However, VNA segment is expected to grow at a fastest CAGR during the forecast period.

Departmental PACS market held the largest share of Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) market in China. The factors such as increasing pressure to improve care quality, growing efforts to enhance the patient experience and reduce costs, emerging field of telehealth, and growing applications of imaging in other specialties than radiology supports the demand for departmental PACS in the country.

Hospitals dominate the China VNA/PACS market and also Witness Largest Demand Through 2023

Hospitals were the leading adopters of PACS & VNA in China and commanded the largest share of this market. The largest share and highest CAGR of this segment is primarily attributed to significant number of Chinese citizens being treated in hospitals, growing number of private hospitals, greater budget to implement advanced solutions such as PACS, rising aging population and burden of chronic diseases such as cancer, and growing health IT investments in hospitals. Hospitals are further segmented in0to public hospitals and private hospitals. Public hospitals are further segmented into tier I, tier II, and tier III hospitals. Tier III hospitals commanded the largest share of VNA & PACS market in China, owing to changing economy and increasing middle class population, advanced specialists and equipment, increasing prevalence of cancer, demand of better healthcare services, public trust towards Level III Hospitals, and access to state-of-the-art technology.